>Why: The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship will enable writers of color>to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start.>It is meant to cement Octavia's legacy by providing the same>experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers>of color. In addition to her stint as a student at the original Clarion>Writers Workshop in Pennsylvania in 1970, Octavia taught several times for>Clarion West in Seattle, Washington, and Clarion in East Lansing, Michigan,>giving generously of her time to a cause she believed in.